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Hometown: Chandigarh
Mother: Sabina Singh
Age: 36 Years
Some lesser known facts about Kalyani Singh
- Kalyani Singh is an Indian lecturer, daughter of Acting Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court Sabina Singh. He is a suspected killer in the 2015 high-profile murder of national level former shooter and advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu alias Sippy Sidhu.
- In 2015, she worked as Assistant Professor on contract basis in the Department of Home Science, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, Chandigarh.
- On 20 September 2015, Sippy Sidhu, a national level shooter and a lawyer, was shot dead by an unidentified assailant in a park in Sector 27, Chandigarh. According to police officials, around four shots were fired at Sidhu with a .12 bore gun. After the murder, the UT Police has registered a case of murder in Sector 26 police station. Talking about Sippy’s murder, a Chandigarh Police official said in a conversation with the media,
It was a case of murder and the police is probing it. His body was found at Sector 27 Park around 11 pm on Sunday. He was probably shot dead at around 10.15 pm. Two-three bullets have hit his body.”
- Sidhu’s family members accuse Kalyani (Sippy Sidhu’s ex-girlfriend) of killing Sidhu. While talking to the media, Sidhu’s mother while talking about Kalyani’s relationship with Sidhu said,
We told the police that the judge’s husband and one of his relatives had threatened Sippy, after which I asked him to be alert. The judge’s daughter also came to our house in August and asked Sippy if he would marry her. We suspect that she was murdered for refusing to marry the girl. The real culprit will be revealed in the police investigation.
- Following allegations by Sidhu’s family, the prime suspect in the case, Kalyani Singh, was questioned twice by the Chandigarh Police. The police had also made a video of his second interrogation.
- In 2016, the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The CBI, in its preliminary investigation in the death case, revealed the fact that
Sippy’s killer was accompanied by a woman at the time of the murder.”
- In the same year, the CBI announced a cash reward of Rs. 5 lakh to any person, who will help the agency with the evidence to solve the case. Later, the CBI also released an advertisement which purportedly stated,
The said woman is also being given a chance to come forward and contact us if she is innocent. Otherwise, it will be presumed that she was a party to the crime.”
- In the hearing of the case in 2020, the CBI, while filing an untrace report in the court, said that it did not have enough evidence to file a charge sheet against Kalyani Singh. Also, he sought the permission of the court to continue his investigation because of a strong suspicion on him.
- As the investigation deepened, the CBI increased the prize money in the case to Rs. 10 lakh in December 2021. However, it failed to collect any clues.
- In the June 2022 hearing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its application, said that Kalyani Singh needed 10 days’ remand to interrogate him to find the other person involved in the case and the weapons and vehicles used in the case. Is.
- Following the appeal of CBI, Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI Chandigarh, Sukhdev Singh granted 4 days remand for Kalyani. The court asked Kalyani’s lawyers to be present during the investigation at the police station without actively participating or interfering in the investigation process. The court also said that as long as Kalyani was in CBI custody, she was free to use her clothes, subject to investigation.